I feel like when I went into this novel that I only had an inkling of what it was actually about. It’s post-apocalyptic and slow-moving. I would compare this book to Klara and the Sun and The Road. 

I am comparing this to Klara and the Sun, because like Klara, our mc (unnamed) in this book is new and she only knows what she knows from the people around her and her surroundings. She is unfamiliar with everything in the world. This really is a coming-of-age story as we follow her as she navigates a world she did not know before and does not know now. All she knows is that it is different from what it used to be. 

I compare this to The Road because it is set in a similar setting and there is some exploration of the desolate world and death is everywhere. 

This book is more philosophical sci-fi. It asks a lot of questions that don’t really have answers but makes you think. It’s not my favorite type of sci-fi but it was definitely worth the read. This is relatively short and I was able to finish the audio in less than a day. The audiobook is excellent. It has a foreword at the end that really brought the novel together. The narrator, Nikki Massoud’s voice was arresting and I didn’t feel the need to do much else when listening because I was so captivated by her voice.